[Sam said:
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I'm going to jump in here. I honestly can't say I'm looking forward to this, for several reasons.
First one being clashing graphics. I really don't think the characters suit the backgrounds at all, but this is a minor niggle I can probably overlook, if it weren't for the main one.
One of my friends is a zombie nut, I mean, really just... Wow. He actually has a written out survival plan for a zombie attack next to his bed, where he's literally thought of everything. He's got almost every zombie film known to man, from Dawn of the Dead to Shawn of the Dead in seriousness and tone. He also reads a lot of zombie comics and graphic novels, like The Walking Dead, and has a bunch of books, such as World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide.
This means that everytime I look into anything with zombies, he's over my shoulder pointing out the inaccuracies and I've kind of learned a fair bit from those sessions.
- Zombies don't run. Their leg muscles would likely tear right off, they're moving corpses so their cells never repair. In addition to this, their hearts have stopped beating and their blood is clogging in every vein and artery they have, which makes their joints stiff and a little more difficult to use - hence they move slowly. It means with each lurch forward they take out their leg that little bit more. With a lack of nerve endings and clotted blood vessels, not to mention muscles that are just rotting off the bone, running is impossible and impractical for them.
- A small city, surrounded by larger cities is the setting. Somewhere with such a large population wouldn't have stood a chance and would have fallen a long time ago. The infection would have just spread far too quickly for anyone to combat it. In a built up area, by the time you've realised you have zombies, it's already too late.
- The leader, which you describe as terrible, is actually doing a good job. Being that strict is the only way to stay alive. If they try to overthrow him, they won't last on their own because they'd be too soft and lenient.
- Getting supplies from ruined cities is almost out of the question as the streets would literally be crammed with zombies and abandoned cars, shoulder to shoulder. You'd never get through. Your best bet would be to find a rural area with a natural barrier against the hordes, like a hill, or a river that cuts around several sides. Somewhere where you can grow your own food.
I also have problems with weapons. A zombie doesn't have to bite you to infect you. If their blood lads on your face and gets in your mouth, eyes or ears, you're infected, if their blood splatters onto a cut or opening in the skin, you're infected. A shotgun has too large a splash zone to be practical. And burning zombies won't do a lot of good as all their nerves no longer work, so they wouldn't feel anything, and thus, wouldn't be affected.
With cars, there'd be too many zombies to drive through, it'd actually take out the car within minutes. In city areas it would just be chock-a-block with them, and a regular car would be screwed. You'd need an armoured bulldozer, a prison bus with a snow plough or something, and even then it's risky.
With the barricade system, the electric fence wouldn't so anything. Remember, their hearts have already stopped, and their nerve endings no longer function, there's nothing to be gained from electrocuting them.
Sorry to rip into it so much. Spent so much time around my friend that all this stuff is just logged in my head now. It's a shame too, it's ruined a lot of zombie films for me.
1)Running zombies- The only ones that run in the game are at the complete end of the game. the rest of the game is slow, walking hordes. Its more or less just for a challenge.
2)City- I don't actually mean the whole entire city, its just a part in the middle. And who are you to say who will survive and who wont?
The last group of the US army blasted their way through, and made it safe with years of hard work.
3)The leader- I guess I didn't explain this well enough for you to understand.
It's not the point that he is strict. It's that the way he has is killing innocent people for the smallest things, and the rules he has for running the place.
4)Supplies- You don't just get supplies from ruined cities. There are ruined cities that you can go to, and you go with a team everytime. You will also go to small suburbs and such.
5)Weapons- What is wrong with the weapons? And I didnt mention anything about fire other than the flame thrower.
Blood splashing into open wounds? Oh as it states in the zombie survival guide. Keep in mind this is just a game. I have to have a fun factor in it as well. If I made that, it would be too easy to get infected, making the game frustrating.
6) Cars- There is actually going to be a few diffrent kind of veichles, not just a "car". And as I stated before, you wont just be going through cities, there will be highways and stuff you can travel on. Where you drive it, is up to you. Or if you want to drive it at all. It's not going to be a mandatory system, but there is the option to do so.
7) Barricade system- The place is not just protected by an electric gate. And I'm pretty sure a high enough voltage could fry your brain.
Its protected by thick outer laters of steel walls, electric gates, and other barricades. As well as soilders on the inside heavily armed. Since this barricade has been there for years, if there is any small gaps in the wall or whatever, at night the soilders open the gate, and eliminate the zombies that made there way in. then secure all of the walls and such again. The walls/gates around the city are being watched in shifts 24/7.
Thanks for being honest, but please ask questions for stuff you didnt understand.
